Tibetan Nun's Path To Asylum Hindered
What surprises me about these cases is not the obtuseness of federal officials, but the ridiculous justifications they use.
having proper documentation, for example, is a well known catch-all that few rarely can accommodate without the aid of a lawyer before the fact.
Surprisingly, the Homeland Security rep. said in plain English what is going on
We are sending a message that in the United States . . . we don't hope that asylum seekers find their way here because if they do they will find themselves in a very difficult situation and in prolonged detention.
What the hell is going on? Granted, these people are not citizens, but do we need to treat them like garbage? They flee the most dreadful persecution imaginable and we welcome them with open prisons, possibly sending them back to their captors when we've finished interrogating them. Something has got to be done.